The Uncollected Wodehouse

The Uncollected Wodehouse is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United States on November 9, 1976 by Seabury Press, New York, it contains 14 short stories, five of which had appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1914 collection The Man Upstairs. All had previously appeared in UK. periodicals between 1901 and 1915; some had also appeared in the U.S.

The collection was edited and introduced by David A. Jasen, and features a foreword by Malcolm Muggeridge.

Contents

• "When Papa Swore in Hindustanti"
  • UK: Answers, August 24, 1901
• "A Corner in Lines"
  • UK: Pearson's, January 1905
• "The Autograph Hunters"
  • UK: Pearson's, February 1905
• "Tom, Dick and Harry"
  • UK: Grand, July 1905
• "The Good Angel" (appears in The Man Upstairs collection)
  • UK: Strand, February 1910
  • US: Cosmopolitan, February 1910 (relocated to the U.S., retitled "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes")
• "The Man Upstairs" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, March 1910
  • US: Cosmopolitan, March 1910 (relocated to the U.S.)
• "Misunderstood"
  • UK: Nash's, May 1910
  • US: Burr McIntosh Monthly, May 1910
• "Pillingshot, Detective"
  • UK: The Captain, September 1910
• "When Doctors Disagree" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, December 1910
• "The Best Sauce"
  • UK: Strand, July 1911
  • US: Pictorial Review, February 1913 (retitled "A Dinner of Herbs")
• "Pots O' Money" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, December 1911
• "Ruth in Exile" (also in The Man Upstairs)
  • UK: Strand, July 1912
  • US: Ainslee's, August 1912
• "Death at the Excelsior"
  • UK: Pearson's, December 1914 (original title: "The Education of Detective Oakes")
  • US: All-Story Cavalier Weekly, March 13, 1915 (under the title "The Harmonica Mystery")
• "The Test Case"
  • UK: Pearson's, December 1915
  • US: Illustrated Sunday Magazine, December 12, 1915

The Cosmopolitan story "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes", a reset and slightly lengthened version of "The Good Angel", marks the earliest mention of Lord Emsworth.

See also

• A categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with some details